This is my first entry to my Journal Discussion, If you have any comments or criticism please feel free to speak your mind (within reason) I will take all sensible advice and constructive criticism to mind. Have fun and train hard and smart.

Chalk is amazing, and just smelling the dust will add 15lbs to your total.

Straps are a great tool, because most people can row/shrug more than they can hold. Straps allow you to add more stimulus to your back, while not having to worry about holding it. Great tool for you to use.

Okay, but how does just SMELLING it add 15 pounds? that seem like it would be bad for your lungs and over time drop your wieght.

It's physiological. Everybody has 15lbs extra they don't know about yet. It's getting psyched up that makes the difference. It's not really the smell but what you associate the smell with that matters. Go visit a real powerlifting gym, or any gym where professional athletes train and breathe in the atmosphere.

Not bad. To express things another way:
Monday chest and tri
Tuesday lower body
Thursday upper back and bis
Friday upper back and lower back

Put like this I think you'll spot the problem with Thursday and Friday--big rows on subsequent days.

One might also add that there is some duplication of effort within each workout, but that might not be a problem if you treat one lift as the "main" lift, and the others as "accessory" lifts, and don't do them as heavy as the main one.

Many BB like to organize things around muscles--if that's where you're coming from, you don't have enough exercises (BB are notorious for 12 or 15 or more exercises per workout). If not, there are more effective ways to organize your thinking. By body regions is still pretty BBish, but more efficient than muscles. If you are an advanced lifter needing so give more rest per muscle or body region, that can be a good way of thinking.

For strength, and general recreational lifters, I think it's more efficient to think in terms of movements:

You can then divide that up lots of ways:
M-VPs/QDL
T-HPL/HDL
Th-Vpl/QDL
F-Hps/HDL

OR

M-VPs/VPl/QDL
T-HPs/HPl/Core
Th-VPs/VPl/QDL
F-HPs/HPl/HDL

And on and on.

OR you could just do Starting Strength or StrongLifts 5x5. Both are intended as 3/week.

Also, what is the purpose of your journal? You don't seem to be keeping a record of your lifts, just giving a general report. I think of my journal as being primarily addressed to me (although sometimes I make comments intended for others). For me it's my "official" lifting record. If I want to check if what I remember as my PR for toe curls, I look back there. I also include facts that I originally thought might be relevant to me someday looking back, like what happened that day before lifting, who I lifted with, how I felt. I don't know that these are important any more, but I hate to break the pattern. When I was thinking more about my weight, I logged my weight every few days. I also commented about sleep, but I've stopped doing that, although that's important, and I should pay more attention to it.

So why not log your actual lifts, so you can look back later and plot your progress?

Many BB like to organize things around muscles--if that's where you're coming from, you don't have enough exercises (BB are notorious for 12 or 15 or more exercises per workout).

I didn't really think I had enough exercises but I didn't want to monkey around with the plan. I'm not good at all at putting plans together or tweaking them so I didn't want to mess with it

Jungledoc wrote:

Also, what is the purpose of your journal? You don't seem to be keeping a record of your lifts, just giving a general report. I think of my journal as being primarily addressed to me (although sometimes I make comments intended for others). For me it's my "official" lifting record. If I want to check if what I remember as my PR for toe curls, I look back there. I also include facts that I originally thought might be relevant to me someday looking back, like what happened that day before lifting, who I lifted with, how I felt. I don't know that these are important any more, but I hate to break the pattern. When I was thinking more about my weight, I logged my weight every few days. I also commented about sleep, but I've stopped doing that, although that's important, and I should pay more attention to it.

So why not log your actual lifts, so you can look back later and plot your progress?

I don't know,... I just never though of it (I've been lifting for about 2 years now, but I still consider myself a beginner in knowledge, lol).
I'll start doing that though.

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